We offer dairy products containingprobiotics, such as Lactobacillus caseistrain Shirota and Bifidobacterium brevestrain Yakult, and functional foods and beverages developed through the pursuitof health benefits.

Pharmaceuticals

We have expanded our business fields toinclude therapeutic medicine and we havereceived wide recognition around theworld in the field of anticancer drugs.

Our branches and marketing companies in Japan dispatch guestlecturers to elementary schools and other locations, where they usescale models and other instructional tools to provideeasy-to-understand information about the role of the intestines and theimportance of healthy eating habits.

3,000guest lectures all overJapan in fiscal 2016

200,000participants

Case Study

Courtesy Visit Activities

For more than 40 years, Yakult Ladies have been visiting elderly peopleliving alone as they make their deliveries to confirm that they are safeand to spend some time chatting with them.

Since our foundation, Research & Development hasunderpinned our ability to create products that promotegood health. Life science serves as the foundation of Yakult’sbusiness. The passionate desire of our founder Dr. Shirota inpursuing the potentials of lactic acid bacteria is being carriedon today in the form of Shirota-ism.